Natasha Patel (she\/her\/hers) joined the Department of Computer Science as the Manager of Communications and Outreach in the summer of 2023. She is the point person for communications, marketing, and diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives and works closely with her colleagues to support programming across the department.<\/p>\n
Natasha came to Computer Science after serving as Program Administrator of the BU African Studies Center for five\u00a0years. At the ASC, she managed the day-to-day operations, communications, and events of the Center, and supported the administration of the African Language Program, grants, publications and K-12 outreach activities. Prior to that, she worked at the BU College of Engineering\u2019s Office of Outreach and Diversity, where she supported the college\u2019s K-12 DEI initiatives. Natasha earned her B.A. in International Relations from Boston University in 2017, and has lived in the U.S., Singapore, Malaysia and Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Outside of the office, Natasha enjoys dancing, traveling and exploring new parts of Boston with her friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}